1. Unit 2 Lesson4 周惠华 2006 年 11 月

2. Lesson 4 Christmas

3. Objectives To read a narrative text and understand the story. To build up an area of vocabulary associated with Christmas.

4. To develop reading strategies to answer multiple-choice questions. To practise collocations with have, do and play. To talk about childhood memories.

5. Find the Key Words in the pictures. Find the Key Words in the pictures. Which of the things do you think western people have at Christmas? Pre-Reading

6. Key Words balloons, Christmas carols, Christmas pudding, Christmas tree, snow, snowmen, Christmas stockings, presents

9. Reading ☆ Read the text. Which Key Words are mentioned? Circle them out. Which other Christmas things are mentioned? Make a list.

10. Answers: Father Christmas calendar Christmas cards Christmas lights carol service Christmas tree decorations balloons stockings

11. presents sweets turkey Christmas pudding paper hats Queen’s speech Christmas cake

12. Christmas tree

13. Father Christmas

14. carol service

15. candlesnowman

16. presents

17. decorations

18. turkey

19. Christmas cake

20. sweets Christmas stockings

21. ☆ What’s the main idea of each paragraph? Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3 Para. 4 Para.5 the beginning of Christmas decorations outside activities on Christmas Eve activities on Christmas morning activities after lunch

22. Post- Reading ☆ In what order did the children do these things? Example 1 d a) open the new year calendar b) put their stockings at the end of the bed 2 5

23. c) sing Christmas carols d) write a letter to Father Christmas e)put up the Christmas tree f) go to church g) have Christmas cake 3 4 6 7 1

24. ☆ Answer the multiple-choice questions. 1.Who do you think reads the children’s letters? a) Father Christmas b) their parents c) nobody

25. 2. What do you think people do in a carol service? a) sing songs b) give presents c) watch a play

26. 3. What happened on Christmas Eve? a) The writer stayed awake all night. b) Someone put presents in his stocking. c) The writer saw Father Christmas.

27. 4. Why did they laugh? a) The Christmas carols were happy songs. b) The songs and hats were funny. c) The jokes and hats were funny.

28. 5. After lunch: a) the adults watched the Queen’s speech. b) the children made a snowman. c) everybody had more to eat.

29. In English, some verbs and nouns often go together. Complete the table with these words: tea, the piano, your homework, a shower, cards, a (snowball) fight, a party, the washing-up, lunch, the shopping Vocabulary

30. havedoplay tea, a shower a (snowball) fight, a party, lunch your homework, the washing- up, the shopping The piano, cards

31. ☆ Complete the sentences with these verbs in the correct form. blow up, sing, go to, put up, have(x2), make, put on On Christmas Eve, my grandparents arrived. We(1) a snowman in the made

32. garden and later we (2) the decoration. I (3) lots of balloons. On Christmas morning, I (4) some warm clothes and (5) a snowball fight with my cousins and then we(6) church. put up blew up put on had went to

33. After that, we(7) lunch and (8) Christmas carols. had sang

34. Writing and Speaking Make notes about your childhood memories of an important festival. People: family? Good friends? Preparations: decorations? Invitations?

35. Presents: what? Who for? Make/buy? Food: meals? Special food/drink? Activities: music? Dancing? A long walk? Your feelings: happy? Sad?